Here’s an issue to lobby your Assembly Rep on: give the Speaker job to someone other than Silver.

ddartley–won’t happen. Silver controls the State Assembly with an obstructionist power-broker iron fist. Some assembly members tried to mutiny a few years back, but he found out and outmaneuvered them. Now those assembly members’ districts won’t see their fair share of the pork until they’re gone from office.

Everybody’s afraid of ol’ Shelly Silver up in Albany. He won’t be gone until he CHOOSES to be gone.

Brooklyn,

The mayor’s plan reduces the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in conjunction with trash movement. This may inconvenience some recreational cyclists in selected locations, but it achieves the overall greatest good for the greatest number.

I ride my bike and stroll through my neighborhood in the South Bronx every day, but seldom use the greenway, so there.

In my experience, the bicycle advocates have not always been the best friends of parks. In fact, they have been known to sell them out.

MAdam Bomb is right, the posting is biased and one-sided.

Why would anyone want a garbage dump in a park?
A park born from the defeat of Westway?
The alternative further north – at the towing pound – is welcomed by the community board there
Only Bloomberg and his girlfriend are calling it a red herring.

The 1997 law clearly states NO Garbage Dump on Gansevoort. You don’t like it buddy, change the law instead of writing lies on this blog.

We fought to kill Westway, get a green park along the Hudson, and think we are going to let this garbage dump go unchallenged.

We LOVE Shelly Silver. That is why his constituents – like me – vote for him year after year. He delivers. He killed the West Side Stadium. He will kill this stupid scheme.

Go Shelly!

As one who rides the Hudson River path every day to work, I can confirm that there are plenty of garbage trucks at the Gansevoort site already, and they do cross the path when there is a green light in their direction. That’s right, there is a signal already there for trucks, so any bicyclist should know enough to stop when it’s red in their direction.

Despite having to cross over the driveways of two of these garbage facilities every day (59th St also), I am in favor of them because it is absolutely illogical and discriminatory to foist Manhattan’s trash and garbage trucks on the residents of other boroughs. Also, the fact that Gansevoort will be servicing recyclable items instead of normal trash should remove the pest and smell issues from the litany of excuses the few opponents to this plan continually wail about. I do hope that the trucks being used to cart the recycling do get converted over to some form of biodiesel/hybrid technology sooner rather than later. But the fact that total Vehicle Miles Traveled will be cut by this siting option is a good start. Hopefully Silver will move this plan through today at last.

And the principle of protecting parkland from alienation is worthless? Good people in the Bronx know that this Mayor will tell a community that “there’s no alternative.” After the filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park and Yankee Stadium allowed to displace two beautiful parks, they know better.

#14 Very, very funny.

I guess she crawled back into the woodwork with Ben Green

I think in hindsight everyone would agree with you, a. But there was too much fear that the waterfront would be privatized by development along the edge, and the city’s transit was desperately in need of at least some part of the money. The promise of a “boulevard” at grade, landscaped and with boulevard-like streetscaping, was the compromise. ANd the park and the greenway. That is why I am sympathetic to those who defend that narrow strip fiercely (and those in State DOT who defend the dark green streetlight fixtures from City DOT who would replace them with standard yellow.) It’s a slippery slope.

The filtration plant is necessary infrastructure for public health, and so is a waste plan. The Bronx would benefit the most from the solid waste management plan as it bears most of the garbage truck traffic!

Fair Trash-

The alternatives have not been vetted well enough and that is what Silver knows and that’s why he is holding this up. See the Times piece today. It is clear, and if you’ve attended the numerous community board and other meetings around this, that the Mayor doesn’t want to hear alternatives. He is obstinate and wants it done his way. Much to his peril (see the West Side Stadium or Olympics bid.)

We all talk about sharing the load and such. Well, how about we take some of the tunnel traffic on 7th Avenue and shove it into the Bronx? How about we move the MeatPacking mayhem and put that in Staten Island? Or could we share the amount of tourists that encircle and entangle the Village nightly? Or maybe we could put the Westside Highway in Central Park!

The entire city has things that other neighborhoods have to endure for the benefit of the rest of the city (for instance, The Village contributes many more tax dollars for film permits, than most areas of the city). I’m not saying that we shouldn’t keep trash transmission as local as possible, but why is it so important to alter a much fought for piece of legislation when there are not one, but several alternatives that obviously have not been properly thought through because of the mayor’s foot stomping. It’s odd that TA tends to fight for cyclist rights, but on this issue has come down on the wrong side for pedestrians and cyclists. It IS about reducing truck traffic in one area, but is increases it in another area which was suppose to have a decrease.

The leaders in this town should be aggressively seeking solutions and not blundering about and getting the way.

The ultimate end for that sliver of two-thirds acre of Gansevoort park is underwater the way things are going now.

There needs to be a massive public education program to explain the scale and urgency of the climate change crisis; especially to our leaders.

… to create a high level of cohesion among everyone and sense of purpose.